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Panel Reluctantly Recommends Shuttering Last U.S. Collider
A panel of scientists has recommended shutting the last U.S. grand atom smasher, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, to make room in a tight budget for other projects funded by the Department of Energy (DOE). Closing RHIC would be a disaster for the U.S. nuclear physics communit…